You've become the warden, and you're telling me I'm an undercover agent?

Chapter 257 Attacked!

Diancui Lake Guanlanting Villa Area.

At eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, Chu Zhiyuan was still working, but it was almost time to rest.

In fact, according to the characteristics of the cyborgs, getting up early and going to bed early has no meaning. Most of their bodies are mechanical, and they have the assistance of think tanks to deal with problems, so they basically don't feel tired.

However, in order to find some human emotions as an anchor in their daily work, most of the modified humans also silently abide by it.

They are better at expressing their limited emotions, trying to prove that they are still human, but deep down they believe that they are more advanced than mortal humans.

He handed a reviewed document to his assistant and said, "Do as it says."

The assistant took it respectfully and glanced at the note on it. There was only a single, scribbled inkjet message: "Read." Below it was a special inkjet code, the cardinal's unique mark, used to identify him.

“Do as instructed” actually means to follow the advice of the think tank.

If it is done well, it will naturally be attributed to the word "read"; if it is not done well, then I only wrote "read", which means that I just know it, and what does it have to do with me if it is not done well?

It has to be said that the Mechanicus imitates human behavior and emotions very well.

After giving the instructions, Chu Zhiyuan stood up and prepared to go back to rest.

As far as their current physical state is concerned, resting in bed and hibernating in a mechanical cabin are the same.

It didn't even matter whether he slept for eight hours or not. But the behavioral habits brought about by his identity as a "human" made him ready to rest at this time.

But just as he took a step, he caught a glimpse of his assistant still standing there, hesitant to speak.

"Anything else?" Chu Zhiyuan asked.

The assistant looked at him and nodded.

"what's up?"

"It's not a big deal. I just have some questions about the final model—" the assistant said haltingly.

"What's your question?" Chu Zhiyuan looked at him strangely.

"I'm a little curious," the assistant scratched his head. "For example, why don't you fly the final aircraft yourself?" At this point, he quickly changed the subject. "I'm not talking about piloting. I'm just wondering why the church doesn't let high-ranking officials like you conduct the final aircraft experiments."

The assistant's meaning was simple. He was asking why the church leaders did not become the molding machines themselves, but needed to use such complicated means to control them.

"You're taking it for granted." Chu Zhiyuan said, "We lack a suitable carrier! All the high-ranking members of the sect have lost their bodies. How can they awaken their abilities and become carriers?

“In the outside world, once one’s abilities are awakened and one’s level is high enough, who would be willing to hand over their body to someone else’s control?
"Even if we promise not to manipulate his body and only give verbal orders, who would believe us?"

The assistant nodded. "Then—can the person who serves as the emotional anchor become the main consciousness of the final machine?"

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head. "Impossible. The emotional anchor only needs him to balance the mechanical consciousness born from the final machine. His own consciousness is not strong, and the probability of him becoming the main consciousness is extremely small."

Then, Chu Zhiyuan saw his assistant swallow his saliva and asked cautiously, "So, do you think it's possible for me to become the emotional anchor of the final model?"

Chu Zhiyuan was slightly stunned when he heard this. He looked up and down at his assistant for a long time and asked:

"How many years of labor do you still have to pay off?"

"Twenty-three years," the assistant replied.

"So you're trying to take a chance and take a shortcut?" Chu Zhiyuan asked with a smile. The assistant scratched his head, feeling embarrassed to answer.

"Don't even think about it. The risk is too great." Chu Zhiyuan said, "It's not your risk, it's the risk the church will have to bear. It's unnecessary."

After saying that, the assistant lowered his head with a look of disappointment on his face.

Chu Zhiyuan had seen this situation many times. Many reformers, burdened with labor loans from the church for decades, or even hundreds of years, wanted to pay it off quickly and become free.

But in fact, the Mechanicus Church was established nearly two hundred years ago, and even he, a cardinal, had not seen many free modified humans.

Moreover, the life and death of superiors and subordinates are directly related, so it is not easy to leave.

After finishing everything, it was finally time for bed. Cyborgs didn't need to wash before bed; they usually only needed to clean their bodies every few days. After falling into bed, their bodies immediately entered hibernation mode, and their brains fell into a deep sleep.

The night breeze was cool, and after an unknown amount of time, Chu Zhiyuan woke up from hibernation. As he woke up, the lights in the house also lit up.

He subconsciously looked out the window, but it was still pitch black.

Is it still daybreak?
Woke up early?
Chu Zhiyuan quickly rejected this idea because one of the greatest advantages of machinery is precision!

If you set the time to wake up at 7 o'clock, you must wake up at 7 o'clock, not a second more or less.

A time projection appeared on Chu Zhiyuan's retina. It was exactly seven o'clock in the morning.

"Wang Qi!" Chu Zhiyuan shouted loudly. Wang Qi was his assistant and would always be here before seven o'clock.

In the villa of over a thousand square meters, there is only Chu Zhiyuan's own voice.

The echoes and shouts combined together, making the sound seem much louder.

Assistant Wang Qi did not respond. Chu Zhiyuan was no longer concerned about maintaining human living habits at this time. He tried to contact people outside through communication.

However, after the communication request was sent, the other party did not respond.

Chu Zhiyuan's heart sank suddenly. He walked to the bed and looked out the window.

But all I could see was endless darkness and a deathly silence. Even the landscape tree, only three or five meters away from the window, had no outline to be seen.

There are no street lights on the ground and no stars in the sky.

He seemed to have fallen into a dark hole along with the house.

Not right.

Even if there were really attackers coming, with so many transformers guarding the villa, how did they get rid of them all?

His bionic scalp felt slightly numb.

This is an experience he hasn't had in a long time. If it were any other time, he would be very happy.

But at this moment, he didn't have the extra mood to experience it carefully.

After a while, he took a cup from the room and threw it out of the window.

The cup traced a parabola in the air and fell into the darkness. And then, nothing happened.

There was no sound of falling glass or flying fragments.

The darkness is like a huge, bottomless mouth that swallows up anything the moment it's thrown into it.

Chu Zhiyuan soon realized another problem——

Light cannot shine into darkness!
The darkness outside was like a huge sharp blade, cutting off the light neatly along the wall of the villa!

Chu Zhiyuan was standing at the edge of the light.
He took a deep breath, and began to feel uneasy. However, he was still a cardinal after all, and he had multiple liquid alloy clones in his body.

He is confident.

He is not afraid of ordinary special hazards.

He didn't know what the darkness outside was, and for a moment he didn't dare to act rashly.

However, many groundless guesses popped up in his mind, and these guesses were the poison that caused his mentality to gradually collapse!
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